Not all songs lead with words. Sometimes the power of a song is in its number, or numbers. Many songs have been arranged around a single-digit—”One” used by several artists throughout the past 50 ...

As Hair Balls pointed out, we’ve only got three more of these weird number/same number/same number days left this century after today. Such chronological repetition appeals to the hidden ...

“634-5789” by Tina Turner (with Robert Cray) from Tina Live in Europe (1988) This song, which was first recorded by Wilson Pickett for his 1966 album The Exciting Wilson Pickett, was later included on ...

7/21 Books; 191 pp. David Klein reads at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham on Thursday, March 22, at 7 p.m. I readily admit that I’m a numerically hyper-aware guy. In numbered lots, I’ll only park in ...

In 1985, a washed-up singer named Derek Stevens walked into a meeting with record company execs in hopes of reviving his career. The first song he played for them would become the stuff of legends. It ...